An article the Guardian pulled at the last minute because they objected to the word "bummed' on the grounds of taste.

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Much as this new cabinet looks like the Monster Mash, it must be a nice change for the Tories to have a few frontbenchers whose mum and dad didn’t get out of the back of the car when they arrived at parent’s evening. Normally, the Prime Minister is obliged for Occult reasons to find a place in cabinet for someone representing each of the Archetypes in the classic Tarot of Tories : The Jester; The Toad; The Shapeshifter; The Well Groomed Man; The Pederast; Lord Business; Shagger Without Portfolio; The Other Pederast; The Unknown Woman; and The Bummed Man.

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she placed Boris Johnson, looking more than ever like a nightmare Terry Gilliam had about an Emperor penguin, at the Foreign Office. Boris's appointment has certainly divided people, into those who don't want to be represented by him abroad and those who're just glad that he'll be out of the country more often. Foreign Office. You'd think by now it would be the dept for International Relations and Co-operation or something, but no it's the Foreign Office, an office, for dealing with foreigners.

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For what it's worth, all the indicators are that May is a vehemently pro-corporate Tory who is probably well to the right of her own traditional right-wing, and this is possibly the most right wing cabinet in modern history. And yet, paradoxically, I think we are about to enter a time when we will put our petty divisions aside, when we will learn to co-operate fully, when we will raise our consciousness from the mundane. We will have to do this in order to survive, and we will, in the Re-education camps. I'll see you there.

I hear there is currently some discussion about the question if triggering article 50 is something a PM can actually do as an executive decision, or if it requires a parliamentary vote. I don't think they would be able to pass that vote at the moment - could this be something that triggers snap elections, effectively giving the UK another chance to reconsider?

If the government loses its case in the British courts, they could eventually go to the European Court of Justice. It raises the possibility of a truly strange scenario - Brexit ministers asking European judges to overturn the decision of the British courts.

A point of note for republic dwelling posters, in a British Commonwealth Parliament, the Prime Minister is not the executive. The executive is the Crown, currently Queen Elizabeth or her viceroy, the Governor General who is appointed by some political mechanism that varies from place to place for a term. Usually five years? But also my vary.

The transcript of the court case so far as been released, if you enjoy reading such things!

My reading as a complete layman is that this is a slam dunk for the claimant(?), and that Parliament is going to be told it needs to vote.

Which will lead to the entertaining process of watching the government try to persuade Parliament to vote for new treaties they can't even describe, because there can't be any negotiating until it's triggered.

It turns out treating an advisory referendum as binding undermines parliamentary democracy. Who knew?

__________________The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. -Eugene Wigner

The first is contrary to a claim by the claimant, which is that Article 50 can be revoked. This seems at odds with the whole point of Article 50 (it would 'frustrate' the whole point of there being a timetable!), so I don't believe this at all. But it's also what Junker has said! Ultimately this might require the European courts to second.

The second claim is that it is “very likely” that MPs and peers will be given a vote once the withdrawal negotiations are finished. Obviously the reversibility of Article 50 is pretty key to the context of that statement. A vote is pretty useless if the choice is between accepting the outcome of some negotiations, or being ejected from Europe without any successful negotiation at all!

__________________The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. -Eugene Wigner

“AS A PROUD NATIONALISTS WHO CAN ONLY TYPE IN ALL CAPS IM SO GLAD THAT FINALLY THERE IS A HOODIE THAT USES THE SAME KINDS OF SPELLING MISTAKES THAT I USE WHEN RANTING AT GROSS LEFTIES AND MUSLAMICS ON FACEBOOK. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN,” writes Michael Haggart.

Parliament alone has the power to trigger Brexit by notifying Brussels of the UK’s intention to leave the European Union, the high court has ruled. The judgment, delivered by the lord chief justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, is likely to slow the pace of Britain’s departure from the EU and is a huge setback for Theresa May, who had insisted the government alone would decide when to trigger the process.

Next stage: HMG will take it to an appeal in the supreme court. I can't see any grounds for such, and if they bring it I think they must lose.